Top 130 Overcame Quotes & Sayings

People will tell you that I overcame obstacles? Maybe. But the truth is I was incredibly blessed in my life. More was given than was ever taken away.

Today I finally overcame tryin’ to fit the world inside a picture frame.

A man was defined not by his flaws, but by how he overcame them.

He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebearers, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them.

I've had some ups and downs in my personal life, but I have overcame them.

I came, saw, and overcame.

In the 1970s, Washington women lawyers were getting organized. Grouping together gave us courage. And we overcame.

My will to live completely overcame my desire to win

For I now realize that what overcame me that evening was a sudden awareness of the power of intuition, the supra-logic that cuts out all routine processes of thought and leaps straight from problem to answer.

To play my father, his struggles, and how he overcame it all would require you to bring tears to my eyes. It has to be one of his sons. And we're not, none of us, in Hollywood.

I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself.

I feel I overcame something pretty great.

Demosthenes overcame and rendered more distinct his inarticulate and stammering pronunciation by speaking with pebbles in his mouth.

He resisted for a while and there were some legal boundaries, you know, keeping me from being near him or his family, but in the end, love overcame. And I got what I wanted. I always get what I want.

But after a moment a sense of waste and ruin overcame him. There they were, close together and safe and shut in; yet so chained to their separate destinies that they might as well been half the world apart.

I overcame all the casting couches and stood out strongly as an independent woman.

The word of God steadies me. He says your trials and tribulations make you who you are. So you can see my whole story in the way I endured and overcame some testing experiences.

I overcame a big struggle and was able to play in the most prestigious league in the world - something that kids dream of - and play for a long time.

I think I overcame every single one of my personal shortcomings by the sheer passion I brought to my work. I don't know if you're born with this kind of passion, or if you can learn it. But I do know you need it.

I overcame a lot of things, growing up, as everyone does.

Our predecessors overcame many troubles and much suffering, but each time got back up stronger than before.

I've been picked on my whole entire life, and I feel like I started the IAmMoreThan campaign on Instagram to try to find other people who have been bullied and totally overcame it and did something amazing with it.

Avoid problems, and you'll never be the one who overcame them.

What I never overcame is a kind of shyness.

I overcame a lot of obstacles in my life and in my childhood.

The fact that guys adjusted really quickly to the big leagues, developed really quickly, faced adversity under the brightest spotlights, played great baseball, overcame so much, overcame centuries worth of issues and won a World Series, I guess it doesn't necessarily mean we're still not just prone to the laws of nature and reality and baseball.

Before I came along, my field was dominated by myth, superstition, deceit, and outright fraud. I overcame it by the simple application of logical thinking.

I never overcame my conviction that writing for commercial television was a kind of prostitution.

And like the old stereotype, I overcame my shyness by making my friends laugh.

I was diagnosed dyslexic, but I should point out I don't think it majorly impacted on me. I don't feel that I overcame great odds. If anything it just pushed me in a certain direction that wasn't academia or maths or science.

In reality, we can only talk about things that we already overcame in our minds.

I think I finally overcame my self-esteem and confidence issues at around 20.

Jesus gave us the victory with which He overcame Satan, and commissioned us to cast out devils in His Name.

I want to be remembered as a Miss Universe who overcame her fears and helped other women overcome theirs.

I took the hardest possible route that you could take, and I still overcame and succeeded.

I know if I react, and I want to get mad, and emotions come to the surface, I think quickly of my friends who have died and how they overcame their struggle and used their cancer and their lives for the betterment of mankind, and it sets me back in place.

We all experienced people putting us down and people saying we couldn't do it. We overcame it.

It seems that whenever America faced a challenge, it faced it and overcame it.

I take my hat off to my friend, Mark Wahlberg, because I know that it took him a long time to make 'The Fighter', and he overcame a lot of obstacles to do it, and now the film is an unqualified success.

Reagan, people claimed, was too old to run for president and to be elected. But he proved himself such a vigorous campaigner in the primary system that he overcame those beliefs.

Because a woman brought death a bright Maiden overcame it, and so the highest blessing in all of creation lies in the form of a woman, since God has become man in a sweet and blessed Virgin.

When I was in first grade, the kids called me 'fatso.' It hurt, but the way I overcame it was to outrun every kid in the class. So I developed a thick skin, and athletics became my way of performing and being accepted.

Lance Armstrong is the guy that I would put up there as one of my heroes. He's done something that no one else has done and when you put into it what he overcame, it's absolutely unbelievable.

I believe I overcame a lot.

I overcame size with mechanics.

I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.

I had a fear of heights but I overcame that while shooting for 'Luck.' I jumped from a height of 2,000 feet for one shot.

Thankfully, Australia has emerged from its inauspicious colonial beginnings to become a proud nation, a nation that overcame those primeval prejudices.

Every child I know who overcame long odds and grew into a responsible adult can point to an adult who stepped into his or her life as a FRIEND, a MENTOR, and a GUIDE.

I kept on going and I overcame my fears and got over my insecurities.

I really practiced hard and got to a certain level of technical proficiency. I overcame some of my limitations. I was a hard-working, dedicated bassoonist, but I have to say I'm not a natural musician.

I think that photography has allowed me to have a voice. I used to stutter, and once I overcame that struggle, it felt good to tell people they were beautiful and special.

I once laboured hard for the free will of man, until the grace of God at length overcame me.

He was blessed with an unconventional mind, which overcame his conventional middle-class upbringing.

If... many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.

In my life I've gone through a lot of really hard times. I went through depression and had so many challenges that I overcame. And I overcame because I just decided to be happy.

Once I overcame breast cancer, I wasn't afraid of anything anymore.

I tend to not discriminate when it comes to people I can learn from. Basically, if someone has built a meaningful business in software, technology or media, faced disruption and adversity, and overcame underdog status, I want to know how they did it.

I really worked hard and overcame mental barriers to achieve those records.

I take my hat off to my friend, Mark Wahlberg, because I know that it took him a long time to make 'The Fighter,' and he overcame a lot of obstacles to do it, and now the film is an unqualified success.